Alberto Illera
Member Of Technical Staff at Magic
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlberto Illera is a hands-on offensive security engineer with 12 years of experience turning theoretical vulnerabilities into practical exploit research and mitigations, now serving as Member of Technical Staff in San Francisco. He led vulnerability research teams at Salesforce and built Red Team capabilities at Cruise Automation, with a track record of finding critical 0-days and presenting at top conferences including multiple BlackHat and DEF CON appearances. An award-winning toolsmith (winner of the 2016 IDA Pro plugin contest), he is an active open-source contributor to notable projects like Triton and Microsoft’s vcpkg, bringing low-level program analysis, symbolic execution, and cross-platform expertise. Combining a math and computer science background with advanced exploit training (SANS, Corelan, Immunity), he blends rigorous theory, practical tooling, and offensive creativity—off the clock he’s equally likely to be on a fútbol field as on stage demonstrating a new research exploit.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Corelan Advanced Exploiting, Corelan Advanced Exploiting at Corelan Training (Hackfest)Embedded Device Exploitation Hardware Hacking, Embedded Device Exploitation Hardware Hacking at Tecnical Network SolutionsOperational Post Exploitation Pentesting, Operational Post Exploitation Pentesting at Attack and ResearchSEC760: Advanced Exploit Development for Penetration Testers, SEC760: Advanced Exploit Development for Penetration Testers at SANSFuzzing for Vulnerabilities Exploiting, Fuzzing for Vulnerabilities Exploiting at BlackHat AsiaMaster Class - SAT/SMT solvers and Linux Kernel exploitation, Master Class - SAT/SMT solvers and Linux Kernel exploitation at Immunity (Infiltrate2015)Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.) Mathematics, Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.) Mathematics at Salamanca UniversityCorelan Advanced Exploiting, Corelan Advanced Exploiting at Corelan Training (DerbyCon)
English, Spanish, French
Github Skills (21)
c-language10
lib10
multiplatform10
python10
cross-platform10
cmake10
semantics10
binarydiff10
triton10
semantic10
dynamic-analysis10
vcpkg10
symbolic-execution10
package-manager10
reverse-engineering10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
illera88/Ponce
Jul 2016 - Dec 2022
IDA 2016 plugin contest winner! Symbolic Execution just one-click away!
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Security Engineer
Back-end Developer & Security EngineerContributions:21 releases, 386 commits, 14 PRs in 6 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Alberto primarily contributed to the core functionality of the project. The commits show integration of features involving low-level program analysis and symbolic execution with emphasis on creating or modifying the user interface with the intent to add the ability to taint or symbolize memory. The user was also responsible for incorporating options, which indicates security-related work.
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JonathanSalwan/Triton
Nov 2015 - Mar 2022
Triton is a dynamic binary analysis library. Build your own program analysis tools, automate your reverse engineering, perform software verification or just emulate code.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 39 commits, 21 PRs in 6 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Alberto primarily contributed to the Triton project by addressing 32-bit compatibility issues, indicating a focus on cross-platform support. This included modifying code to support both 32-bit and 64-bit architectures, particularly within the `PINConverter` class and Python bindings, as well as adapting include statements to support Windows builds. They also made changes to build processes and Windows support.
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